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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03
THE EAST.

The loss by the recent burning of the
street-car barns and tenement houses in
New York City was on the 9th placed at
81, 1926 000 More than one hundred families
were homeless and over twelve hundred
horses were roasted to death.
In weekly trade review issued on the
9th New York commercial agency notes
a general Improvement in crop prospects
throughout the country. Railroad earn
ings were also said to be large and encour-
aging and trade in most lines of mercan-
disc was active.
FAST tram was wrecked on the Penn
sylvania road on the 9th by collision
with a freight train, and four men on the
express train were killed and eight other
passengers were seriously injured
THE annual session of the Right Worthy
Grand Lodge of Good Templars closed at
Saratoga Springs, N Y, on the 9th.
John Finch, of Evanston, ILL.,, was re-
elected Right Worthy Good Templar.
On the 9th five hundred coal miners at
Sanford q Co. IS Essen and Toms Run
(Pa.) mines struck for semi-monthly pay.
The mines were closed down.
THE United Presbyterian Church of
North America met in general assembly at
Philadelphia on the 9th.
AT its session in Philadelphia on the 2Sth
the general assembly of the United Pres by
terrain Church decided in favor of instru-
mental music in churches by vote of $50
to 129
THE boat in which three persons we've
rowing on the Goth at Utica, N. Y, cap
sized and all were drowned.
NEAR Middleton, N. Y, snow fell on the
2Sth to the depth of half an inch.
AT its session in Saratoga Springs, N.
Y. on the 2Sth the Grand Lodge of Good
Templars declared itself equivocally in
favor of absolute prohibition of the liquor
traffic
THE Lorin NJ Palmer cooperage factory
in Williamsburg, N. Y, was consumed by
fire on the 2Sth causing loss of $500, 0OO
The standing OF the base ball clubs in
the National League for the week ended
on the 18th was as follows: Detroit (games
won), 20; Boston, II; New York, Is;
Philadelphia, 10; Pittsburgh, 8; Chicago,
9; Washington, z; indianapolis, 5.
THREE men were instantly killed and
others were injured by an explosion on the
Both ult in the Hitchcock manufacturing
works at Cortland, N. Y.
THE Star, of New York, made editorial
announcement on the Both ult. of its in
tentlon to raise $685. 900 by popular sub
scription to build Grant monument in
Riverside Park. The sum is to be added
to the S125, 9)4 collected to date by the citi.
Zens' committee.
THE four-year-old daughter of Green
berry Davis, of Woods Run, Pa, died on
the Both ult, from hydrophobia caused by
a dog bite received one year ago.
EDINBURG, Pa, was swept by cyclone
on the 30th ult, and much damage done to
buildings and crops.
By the capsizing of boats on the Both
ult three men were drowned at Utica, N.
Y, and like number met the same fate at
Monongahela CITY, Pa.
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WEST AND SOIITH.

COMMODORE w. f. DAVIDSON, who died
on the Goth at st. Paul, Mimi, left an es-
tate valued at 81, 000.0O
GENERAL WADswoRTH, of Maysville, KY,
while arguing case in court at Minneap-
oils, Mimi, on the Goth fell unconscious,
and was with difficulty resuscitated.
A CIGAR MAKER named Minden, recently
from New York, died at Key West, Fla,
on the Goth of yellow fever This makes
four cases and three deaths.
On the 27th burglars caused fire in the
dry-goods establishment of H. P. WATSON
Il Co., at Indianapolis, Ind, entailing a
loss of $4,000.
ADvIcEs of the 9th announce the loss
of the ship st. Stephens on the reefs at
Cape Cook, w. T., with her crew of thirty
men.
THE death of Captain w. S. White,
editor of the Wichita (Kan.) Beacon oe-
CURED on the 27th. He was married to
his betrothed an hour before his death.
In the Northwest the condition of the
wheat crop had on the 9th been greatly
improved by the recent rains, and the
prospects were highly encouraging
AT Jefferson, La, four blocks of build
ings were destroyed by fire on the 27th,
causing loss of S500,000
j. w, South, trotting stallion, valued at
$40, 900, and owned by Nat Bruen, of Bur-
lington, la, died on the 9th from the eff
fects of poison given him by some one un-
known to prevent his-winning race.
A CONFEDERATE cemetery near Spring
field, Mo-, was dedicated on the 27th, and
the graves of 507 victims of the battle of
Wilson'S Creek were decorated.
MILWAUKEE brewers disposed of S1,2l7,-
115 barrels of beer, valued at S. 7S7, 400,
during the twelve months ended May l.
AN estimate on the 9th placed the total
loss by the regent forest fires in Northern
Michigan at 100000, including g, 100000
caused by the destruction of the town of
Lake Linden. Only eight lives were pos
rtlyeiy known to have been lost Great
restitution prevailed throughout the burnt
district.
THE largest tobacco warehouse in Wis
consin located at Stoughton was DESTROYED
by fire on the 18th, causing loss of
100000.
The annual meeting of the International
Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers was
held at Columbus, o., on the goth.
RECENT rains have greatly improved the
winter wheat prospects in Indiana and
Ohio.
IT was settled without doubt on the 18th
that Avery Brown, of Elkhart, Ind, was
the youngest person who was ustered
into the Northern army during the late
civil war He was precisely eight years
eleven months and three days old when he
entered the service
The labor situation in Chicago was un-
changed on the 2Sth, The master masons
were stlll firm aud confident OF winning.
Many Of them reported tAat they bad woFk
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FOREIGN INrEIIIGENcE-

THE bark Mcleod, which arrived at
Philadelphia on the 26th from Buenos
Ayres, reported that the cholera was kill
ing off people like sheep in that city and
it's suburbs.
AT meeting in Montreal on the evening
of the 9th William O'Brien, the Irish agi-
tator, announced the close of his Canadian
mission, which no declared was more sue
cessful than he even hoped.
AT Tisi, Italy, four shocks of earthquake,
one of them quite violent, were felt on the
10Th. Several slight shocks were also felt
at Anconio
In coal mine at Blantyre. Scotland, an
explosion OF gas on the 2Sth imprisoned
over one hundred men, and seventy were
reported as having lost their lives.
FIVE mon were drowned at Mont real.
Can, on the 29th by the upsetting of their
boat
UP to the 2Sth seventy five bodies had
been recovered from the ruins of the
Opera Comique at Paris. The number OF
victims was placed at one hundred and
fifty.
CABLEGRAMs received from Calcutta on
the 28th reported that recent cyclone had
completely devastated the district OF
Orissa, N India. A steamer with 759 per-
sons on board was caught by the cyclone,
and was believed to have been lost.
In Mexico violent earthquake shocks
were experienced on the 10Th, but no fatal
tiles were reported.
A NEW French Cabinet has been formed
with n. Rouvier as Prime Minister
THE Gar of Russia has issued ukase
prohibiting aliens from acquiring real prop
erty in Russian Poland.
NEAR Springer, Switzerland, mount
ain slide on the 30th ult destroyed two
cottages and killed SIX persons.
A POSTAL CLERK IN Austria extracted
$4,000 in bank notes from registered let
ters and disappeared on the Both ult.
DURING March ard April 5000 Chinese
left Hong Kong for America.
UP to the Both ult sixty two dead bodies
had been recovered from the mine at Blan.
tyre, Scotland, in which occurred the re.
cent explosion.
IT was stated on the Both ult that Bur-
nah was tire atened with scarcity of food,
if not an actual famine. The price of grain
at Mandalay was very high, although ii
was harvest time.
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going on under, the conditions agreed upon,
and that applications for work from the
strikers were getting more numerous
every day.
A BOILER explosion in a Eatchez Miss
cotton factory on the 18th killed five per-
sons instantly and wounded a large num-
Der, several of whom would die.
DAAIEL PADRICK, who died on the 18th at
Shelbyville, Ind, had reached the remark
able age OF 1Q2 years. He had been mar
ried four times and was the father of
twenty children and had hfty-six grand
children.
Two MEN at Indianapolis, Ind, were
drowned on the 18th by the capsizing of
their boat.
THE greater part of the business portion
of the town Of Oakland, Ia, was burned on
the 18th.
In some sections of California the wheat
crop was on the Both ult. reported dam
aged by hot winds.
IT was reported on the Both ult. that rich
gold fields had been discovered near Gold
en- City, Ark. the quartz showing from $50
to $50 per ton.
AT Nogales, A. T., two shocks of earth
quake were felt on the 30th ult. A cyclone
swept through the town the previous
night, unroofing many buildings and de-
stroying many Mexican huts.
In three-mile single-scull race at Pull
man, ILL.,, on the 30th ult. for $500 side
and gate receipts, Jacob Gaudaur beat
Edward Hanlan in 20:29. Six thousand
spectators were present.
AT Huntington, w. Va, the boiler in an
elevator exploded on the 30th ult., killing
three men and injuring many others.
SINCE the opening of spring over twenty
soldiers had deserted from Fort Meade,
d. T.
A FIRE destroyed the Swanton and
Santa Cruz hotels, two of the largest
houses in Santa Cruz, Californa's popular
bathing resort on the Both ult.
A CYCLONE on the 30th uIt. at Upper San
dusky, O., caused heavy losses to buildings
and crops.
THREE brothers named johnson were
precipitated into the water by the over
turning of boat near Sandusky, O., on
the 30th ult, and all were drowned.
ACCORDING to the Michigan crop bulletin,
issued on the Both ult., all crops are still
below the average but the temperature of
the past seven days has had beneficial
effect on wheat, oats, barley and grass,
bat has been unfavorable to corn.
JOHN HoAGLAND. aged seven years, fell
over a steep bank into the Wabash river
at Terre Haute, Ind. on the Both ult, and
was drowned. Elias, his brother aged
eighteen, in attempting to rescue him met
the same fate
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the afternoon, but the weather cleared per-
ceptibly about four o'clock, aud soon the
crowds began to arrive on the grounds,
and by the time flaisted and Bubear got
into their shells for preliminary scratch
of half a mile and a turn for $50 a side not
less than 5000 were present Bubear
easily won from Plaisted, and preparations
were at once made for the event of the
day. Hamilton Busby, of the Turf, Field
aud Farm, was the referee and the cotirse
was three miles with a turn
Gaudaur used Paddock she'll of cedar
thirty one and a half feet in length, and
having rolling seat. Hanlan's craft was
of the same Dimensions, of the Blake model,
having also rolling seat. The start was
made at 4:52 p: m. OH ecurse almost as
rough as the shells could ride. Gatl=
daur's first strokes gave him a lead of d
quarter of d length, but at the end of d
minute he had been left a full length in
the rear. Gaudaur's stroke was then 80
to the minute against Hanlan's 81 Both
men were pulling evenly full, strong
stroke. The breeze was nearly dead ahead,
but its effect nmperceptible. Both men
seemed to DE making almost the maximum
amount Of speed with an equal lack of ef-
fort. For a mile and half there was not
the slightest change, except that both
men were rowing about four strokes per
minute less than at the start. There
was considerable anxiety at this stage
lest Sudden squat should end the race
by swapping the SHELLS, but the danger
passed by in a shower of rain and slight
fresheniug Of the breeze. Hanlan turned
the stake still retaining his lead of about a
length, and those whose faith in Gaudauf
had been unlimited began to wonder if the
Canadian was not, after all, about to
redeem himself in the eyes of the
world of aquatics This suspense was of
short duration. The long armed Missourian
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03
LABoRERs in THE VINEYARD.

Thousands of Sunday-SchooI Workers
Gather at Chicago-Openisg of the In
ternational Convention-History of the
Organization and Its Work.
CHICAGO, June LA preliminary session
Of the Fifth International Sunday-school
convention was held last evening n Bat
terry D armory. The convention will be in
session three days, and will hold meetings
On the mornings, afternoons and evenings
of each day. The convention last evening
was merely Introductory, although the
attendance was a complete assembly of
the delegates. Representatives have ar
rived from all parts of North America.
Around the hall are placards bearing the
names OF the States and the number of
Sunday school scholars and teachers that
dwell therein.
The meeting was called to order by John
Benham, president of the Cook County
Sunday-School Association. Addresses
were delivered by Rev. John A. Broadns,
of Louisville, KY; Prof. Fl. Lewis Baugh-
er, of Getty sburg, Pa. /; Prof j. L d. Kinds,
of Lebanon, Tenn, and Rev. C. N. Pond,
of Ohio. The purport of the addresses was
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03
Assisted Immigration.

WASHINGTON, June Correspondence
has recently passed between the Secretary
of State and the British Minister on the
subject of the immigration of Irish crofters,
whose transportation expenses, it is cur
rently reported, are met by the English
Government. In answer to inquiries by
the British Minister as to whether the
Government intends to take any action in
the premises, Secretary Bayard states
that he can not give a general reply, but
that each case will be considered upon its
merits. He intimates, however, that the
sending of paupers who are likely to be-
come public charge to this country by
the British Government would be regarded
as an unfriendly act
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

EXPERIMENTS made at Ottawa, Cam,
during the past winter showed that
Martini bullets tire6into bank of we'll
packed snow were completely spent
after traversing not more than four
feet Snider bullets, in hard-packed
snow, mixed with ice, but hard enough
to prevent digging into it with sheet
iron shovel, did not penetrate more than
four feet. perfectly dry snow, packed
by natural drift bullet penetrated
about four feet and in loose-drifted
dry snow less than seven feet, though
fired from points only twenty or thirty
yards distant.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

SIR CHARLES upper, the Canadian
Minister of Finance, in an interview in
New York the other day, spoke of the
commercial relations between Canada
and tho United States, and declared
that a complete customs union between
the two countries would be irpractica-
bic, because Canada would never adopt
the United States tariff as against En-
gland Although non-intercourse be-
tween Canada and the United States
would not be without advantage to
the former, MIR. Upper said he never
expected to see such a policy adopted.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

The trial of new explosive, invented
by NJ Favier formerly French milf
tary engineer, which, it is stated, may
be kept and handled without danger,
has been made at the Belgian quarries
of Quenast. Half kilogram sufliced
to dislodge a rock of about sixteen
cubic meters. If what is reported is to
be believed, this is the most powerful
explosive yet invented.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

RECENT correspondence with the Cam
adian Government has resulted in an
understanding that the Canadian regu-
lations in regard to the towing of YES
sells in Canadian waters and at Cana
dian ports will be amended so as to ex-
tend the privilege to American tugs
when in Canadian waters.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

had no sooner set out
on the home-stretch
than he began for the
first time to look
about him with evil
dent interest in the
result. There was no
perceRtible accelera-
ton of his stroke,
but something else
went into it equally
potent, for a dozen Of
them brought him
alongside his adver-
sary. Another dozen
gave him a lead of
half a length. A min
ute later there was
clear water between
tho cho11c ap1 Co11
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

AN Indiana tanner, who told bis
boys to burn every humble bees nest
found, and who was complaining at
the failure of his clover-seed crop, was
surprised when Maurice Thompson, the
naturalist, said; THAT is why your
clover seed fails. Bundle bees make
your clover seed.n 1t is fact that a
strong nest of humble bees in big
clover field is worth twenty dollars 70
the owner, for these insects are the
chief agents in fertilizing the blossoms.
In Australia there are no humble bees
Of our kind, and they could not raise
seed there untll they imported some,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

The Philadelphia & Reading Rail
road Company is having built at its
shops one hundred iron tubular cars.
These are said to weigh less than
wooden cars of the same dimensions
and to have a carrying capacity of
sixty thousand pounds.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

ALTHOUGH the tax levied in the Dis
trict of Columbia on drummers, until
1t was declared unconstitutional, was
never paid by any large proportion of
them, there were q few commercial
brokers" who made fortune by it. A
Washington correspondent says that
there are a dozen on more of these
men who pay license for themselves
and farm this license out at from $50 to
500 to each man desiring to open bis
sample cases. One of these brokers
recently retired from business with a
fortune of about $4,000 which he had
ground out of drummers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03
Patterson Sentenced.

LOUISVILLE, KY. May 31.-William Pat
terson (colored), convict d of completely in
the murder of Jennie Bowman was re-
fused a new trial and sentenced to be
hanged July on which day Turner, his
accomplish, is TO die. Tho case viii be 80,
pealed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03
More than thirty wears aoo a vonn,

More than thirty years ago young
girl was IN the act of placing pitcher
on post which stands near the South
Carolina railway, five miles from
Aiken, when she was struck dead by
lightning. Ever since this tragic oc-
currence the pitcher has remained on
tie post. safe by superstition from the
touch of negroes, who believe that the
arm which touches it will be paralyzed.
Storms and cyclones and earthquakes
have net displaced it, although the post
which holds it is fast crumbling with
decay.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

THERE have been over four thousand
new books published in the United
States during the last twelve months
books relating to every phase Of lit
erary effort and appealing to all sorts
of tAsLes
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03
A conscientious Murderer.

LONDON, KY, May 81 Sam Bernard, a
moonshiner, was released from the Louis
vile Jail three days ago. Being wanted
here on charge Of murder and having no
money, he walked from Louisville to this
psaee--a distance of $50 miles-in two days,
and arrived on time to appe IT in court
Yesterday morning
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

THE indications now are that the
Panama canal will be completed. but
that the cost will be not less than
5000 100000. De Lesseps thought at
the outset that it could be built for
one-siXth of that sum.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

New YORK, June Charles Sldhof aud
his wife, each about eighty years old,
were found dead in their room at Union
Hill, n. j., yesterday. They had taken
poison rather than go to the poor house.
Sidhof was formerly a school-teacher.
OF late the couple had been obliged to live
upon the charity of friends.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03
one Hundred and twelve missing,

PARIS, June 1.--One hundred and twelve
persons are reported missing since the
Opera Comlque fire. The prefecture re-
fuses to give to the public list of those
reported, President Greyy has personal.
" donated 10000 fFaacs for the benefit Of
the sufferers
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

The Kansas Supreme Court has de-
cided that married woman doesn' t
have to take her husbands name UNI
less she wants to. No, and for that
matter she doesn't have to take the
husband, either.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

HERE are more ways of making
money I'm this world than some people
know Of. For instance, w. H. Doane,
OF Cincinnati, makes $40, 900 a year by
writing hymns.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

Ten gentlemen in tally-ho coach
with relays of forty-eight horses re-
Gently covered the distance between
New York and Philadelphia, 1902
miles, in twelve hours.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

-Dark-complexioned women appear
to run to literature. Miss Booth, edi-
tor OF Harper's Bazar; Miss Glider,
Of the Critic; Mrs. Lamb, of the Maya
zine Of american History; Mrs. Frank
Leslie; Mrs Conant, of Harper's b.
gar, and Jennie June, all have dark
compilations.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

The three youngest members in the
next United States Senate will be Ken
ma and Faulkner, of West Virginia,
and Pasco, OF Florida. They are all
a little this side of forty.
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GAuDAuR WINS.

HanIan Defeated in floating Contest at
Pullman, ILL.,, for the Championship Of
America-The Race Takes Place IN a
Rain-Storm-The Details.
CHICAGO, May 31.-Jacob Gaudaur won
yesterdays race at Pullman from Edward
Hanlan, and retains the championship and
carries back with him to St Louis purse
of 5000 and sixty per cent of the gate re-
ceipts. which sum is estimated to swell the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

AN estate of SIS, 100000 has been
left in England to the unknown rela-
tives of Mr.. Smith. The Pittsburgh
Dispatch estimates that each heir will
receive little over $3.50.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

The City Council Of Atlanta, Ca,
has adopted an ordinance against sell
ing ice-cream cakes on the street, on
the ground that each cake has q case
of collie in II.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

Mr.. ABELL, of the Baltimore Sun,
with $20,000,00O, is said to be the
richest newspaper man in the world.
The SIN was established in 1897.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

JUSTICE MILLER is the oldest living
meplber of the United States Supreme
Court He was appointed in 1862.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

Mr.. JOHN TYLER, son of President
Tyler, has for the ninth time been
elected Grand Worthy Patriarch of the
Sons of Temperance of the State of
Virginia.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

championships prof
its to the round sum
of 5000. At noon
Calumet lake was
still in such a
troubled state as to
afford no speedy
prospect of racing
between any craft
less seaworthy than
a four-oared barge.
A steady breeze from
the southwest had
blown all the morn
ing and was still
blowing. Rain fell
at intervals dupin q
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-03

The American Missionary Society
sent five thousand pairs of trousers to
B9rmah last year.
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Two summev-Resort Hotels Burned.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3l.-The Swanton
| and Santa Cruz houses two OF the largest
hotels at the bathing resort at Santa Cruz
were burned yesterday. Loss, $4,000;
partly insured.
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Former Hearers OF Beecher Flock to Tall
Church.

BROOKLYN, May 31.-Talmage's church
is to have an addition which will seat 1000
persons. This has been made necessary
by the death Of Beecher, many Of whose
former hearers have fiocked to the tab
ernacle